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November 2026

  • Mayor Karen Bass, wearing glasses and a green blazer, smiles outdoors against a clear blue sky

    An embattled Karen Bass is fighting tooth and nail to keep her mayorship in LA. It might be too late

    With affordability a major election issue, the incumbent is trying to ward off her democratic socialist challenger

October 2026

  • Two smiling women walk arm in arm along pedestrianised Oxford Street, decorated with hanging star lights

    ‘It’s a better experience’: shoppers praise Oxford Street pedestrianisation

  • Shoppers during a special Christmas pedestrianisation of Oxford Street in 2007.

    The Guardian view on Oxford Street’s pedestrianisation: cities should be designed around people, not cars

  • An African man tending to flowers and plants in a lush garden.

    ‘They paved paradise’: fighting back over the loss of green spaces in Cameroon’s capital

  • Photomontage of a PM's face above a skyline and Sheikh Mansour's below

    The Sunday read
    ‘That’s the way the city works’: how the UAE changed the face of Andy Burnham’s Manchester

  • Town and country
    Can a £5.8bn scheme help revive Grimsby and other town centres?

  • Blackpool, Sheffield, Milton Keynes and Wrexham shortlisted for UK city of culture 2029

  • The long read
    Everyone hates Oxford Street. Will pedestrianisation save it?

  • Poland’s ascent from communist state to top 20 economy reverses the brain drain

  • Uber begins self-driving robotaxi trial in Manchester

  • The long read
    ‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb

  • From urban rooftops to working cattle farms: Australia’s best home gardens – in pictures

    Gallery25

  • Boston mass transit authorities flap around for solution to pigeon menace

September 2026

  • Commuters board a BART train at Fremont station as doors show red warning lights

    ‘Traffic is going to get a lot worse’: San Francisco Bay Area faces potential death spiral of transit system

  • An aerial view of luxury houses in Port Douglas, Queensland

    Change by degrees
    Cooler roofs will prevail: colours and coatings to help beat the heat

  • Banff, Alberta, sits in a forested valley surrounded by snow-capped mountains under a cloudy sky

    Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat

  • Two boys in school uniforms run past a yellow Gcwalisa shop in an old shipping container as vendors watch from inside

    A spoonful of sugar: how South Africa’s weigh-and-pay shops are tackling ‘poverty tax’ head on

  • Cities in Great Britain most vulnerable to extreme heat revealed

  • Reclaiming the streets: the architects clawing back Europe’s car-centric spaces

  • ‘In parks you only see dogs, never children’: can Bogotá adapt to its ageing population?

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